I hear often that people are too busy or don't know how to be an advocate for prostate cancer. Another common refrain is that the "groups" will take care of it. Unfortunately the groups are often hardworking individuals like yourself. The only difference is that they just decided to just do it. Everyone has skills. [...]
Have much catching up to do with you all. I received the following from Johns Hopkins health alerts (you can subscribe for free @johnshopkinshealthalerts.com). This is critical reading for the newbies and "validation" for the oldies. You can trust Hopkins: According to usnews.com, which ranks hospitals, JH is the best hospital in the country overall (have to [...]
A lot of things I read in the "Inspiration" category sound like a lot of hooey to me, but the following really rings true: Even when a cure is not possible, healing always is. You see, a cure involves our physical body. Healing involves that inner process of the mind and the spirit. There are [...]
When life gives you "lemons," what should you do? Make lemonade, right? Wrong! If you have any brains, you'll ditch the lemons, maybe in your neighbor's backyard. But suppose you can't possibly do this? Then, and only then, should you make lemonade. The problem with cancer is that when life gives it to you, it's almost impossible to unload on somebody else. So the best you can do is make yourself [...]
It is easy to dream and hope that researchers will find a cure for cancer but getting there is not an easy task. We have all seen changes and improvements or the past few years but it is possible that forward movement will be significantly slowed or that promising research proposals will not be funded. [...]